■ ARUBA
Suspects back in detention
Three young men once detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of US teenager Natalee Holloway have been arrested again, the public prosecutor's office said, citing new evidence in the case. Dutch student Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Holloway, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos declined to discuss the new evidence or any other details about the case. "Our intention is to keep them in detention for a longer period," he said.
■ BRAZIL
Wayward whale dies
A whale that got lost and swam some 1,300km up the Amazon River died after efforts to capture it and transport it back to the ocean failed, an environmental official said on Wednesday. The 5.5m minke whale had become stranded on sandbars at least twice since it was first spotted last week in the Tapajos River, a tributary of the Amazon near the jungle city of Santarem. A group of biologists and veterinarians managed to examine the animal on Sunday, but the whale got away and was found dead on Tuesday on a Tabajos River beach, said Nazarena Silva, an official with the Ibama environmental protection agency.
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